Scott DesJarlais files bill to repeal workers’ rights notices

U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais sends word today that he has filed a bill to repeal a pending rule that would require employers to post a notice informing workers of their right to unionize and explain how they can file a complaint if they suspect a violation of national labor law.

DesJarlais says his proposed Employer Free Choice Act (H.R.2854) would block the National Labor Relations Board from adding a notice about the National Labor Relations Act to workplace bulletin boards in mid-November. The National Association of Manufacturers sued the NLRB last week, saying the agency does not have Congress’s permission to require the notices.

DesJarlais says the notices are “nothing more than a de facto endorsement of unionization by the federal government.”

“If employers want to distribute information on the ways employees can unionize then that should be their choice – not Washington bureaucrats. Clearly, this arbitrary mandate is simply another favor for big labor made possible by their friends in the Obama administration.”